Ship measurements of marine aerosols

The matter and energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere plays an important rule for the physical and chemical development of the climate system earth.

For a comprehensive investigation of the physical and chemical properties of submicron marine aerosol particles in the marine boundary layer measurements with a great number of instruments of TROPOS are performed during the measuring campaign ANT-XXVII/4, ANT-XXVIII/1, ANT-XXVIII/5 and XXIX/1 aboard the research vessel Polarstern.

Presently the following measurement instruments are integrated in the aerosol container:

A comprehensive data set was collected and is studied scientifically to investigate the physical and chemical properties of marine aerosol over the Atlantic Ocean under different atmospheric conditions.